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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-Ingrid Bergman
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
-Rupert Brooke
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Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,
A million scarce would quench desire;
Still would I steep my lips in bliss,
And dwell an age on every kiss;
Nor then my soul should sated be,
Still would I kiss and cling to thee:
Nought should my kiss from thine dissever,
Still would we kiss and kiss for ever;
E'en though the numbers did exceed
The yellow harvest's countless seed;
To part would be a vain endeavour:
Could I desist?--ah! never--never.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
Then another thousand, then a second hundred,
Then still another thousand, then a hundred,
Then, when we
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
dein cum milia multa fecerimus
conturbabimus illa ne sciamus
-Catullus
Poem V, the kissing poem
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
-George Eliot
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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
-John Gay
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
-Ruth Gordon
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Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
-Heinrich Heine
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
drawing inspiration from Catullus
-Robert Herrick
Hesperides
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
-James Joyce
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
-Franz Kafka
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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
-Emil Ludwig
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A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
-Maupassant
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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
-Bernard Meltzer
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
-H. L. Mencken
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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
-George Meredith
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
-Mistinguett
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss.
-Dorothy Parker
from Incurable
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the I in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
-Edmond Rostand
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
-William Shakespeare
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I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.
-Byron Caldwell Smith
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
-Jonathan Swift
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Books about Kisses
